After the Second World War, there emerged a new generation of composers, who sought to stretch the boundaries of music history, and find new and exciting styles and forms. Browse our sheet music and scores, take a look at our Modern Classical Music, and explore the wide world of contemporary music with Stretta Music today!
Dodecaphony or Serialism is the use of the twelve semi-tones as the harmonic and structural basis, rather than the traditional harmonic key structure which governed classical music until the turn of the twentieth century. Arnold Schoenberg was the father of twelve-tone composition in the 1930s. Moving into the post-war era, all dodecaphonic or serial musical parameters, including note lengths, dynamics and even timbres were set in rows. After 1948, the Darmstadt “holiday courses” became the centre of Dodecaphony or Serialism for almost a decade. Despite the mathematical and logical basis, twelve-tone composition still produced many highly emotional works such as Luigi Nono’s Il Canto sospeso.
As the technical and electronic possibilities continued to grow and thrive after the war, the first studio solely dedicated to electronic music was founded in Cologne in 1951 by Herbert Eimert. Important electronic music composers were Edgar Varese, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ernst Krenek, Maurice Kagel, Luciano Berio and Iannis Xenakis, who was also an assistant to the architect Le Corbusier.
Aleatoric comes from the Latin “alea”, meaning dice. Aleatoric composition leaves elements of the music to chance. The American composer John Cage was the first to experiment with aleatoric music, and many others followed, in particular K. Stockhausen, P. Boulez, W. Lutosławski.
Soundscape composition plays with sense and emotion, it uses long drawn musical landscapes to give the listener time to recognise and experience the music in a whole new way. The most important compositions include Atmosphères and Lontano by György Ligeti. Other works of this type were created by Luigi Nono, Krzysztof Penderecki, Iannis Xenakis.
Minimalism also came to Europe from the USA. Minimalism uses repetitive, wide blocks of sound, without strong contrasts or dramatic changes. It is in the repetition, with gradual, small changes, that the minimalist effect is achieved. The pioneers of minimalism in the 1960s were American composers Philip Glass, John Adams, Le Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich. They were followed in Europe by Henryk Górecki and Arvo Pärt.
for: Double bassoon, piano
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Russische Musik der Moderne
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Piano score, parts
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Music score
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exempla nova 25
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
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für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts
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(With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles / Mit Pfeifen, Trommeln, Schilfgeigen)
Musik unserer Zeit
for: GES-M (MEZZ) 4 SCHLAGZ
Study score
Item no.: 170854
Russische Musik der Moderne
for: 2 violins, piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 218490
Pärts musikalische Interpretation der Seligpreisungen aus der Bergpredigt
englische Fassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
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TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 216168
Baroque and Classical Era
for: Organ
Book and music score
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for: Organ
Item no.: 154236
for: Mandolin, piano
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Für gem Chor (SABar) ud Orgel
Partitur und Orgelstimme separat erhätlich
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Choir score
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Premier Livre
for: Organ
Music score
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arranged for piano
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 494782
Bb
for: Piano
Piano Solo
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für 12stimmigen Frauenchor und Orchester
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Study score
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Dorsey Whillington gewidmet
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Organ
Music score
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Hommage à G. Kurtág
for: Violin, piano
Ensemble score
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für Klavier
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Oboe, piano
Music score, online audio
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
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für Streichquartett
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pour 11 instruments et sons de synthèse
for: Chamber ensemble
Score
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for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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für Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Klavier
exempla nova 133
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Score, Parts
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Klassik
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 321523
for piano 4 hands
Edition Schott
op. 68
for: Piano 4 hands
Single edition
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for Percussion solo
for: Percussion
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for: Cello
Music score
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for: Mixed choir, piano
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for piano, violin and cello
Edition Schott
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para violoncello y piano
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for: Organ
Music score
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per viola solo
for: Viola
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Cantata for Mezzosoprano and Piano
Edition Schott
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Single edition
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Russische Musik der Moderne
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Set of parts
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for string quartet (2004/2006)
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Score, Set of parts
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for high voice and harp
for: Voice, harp
Music score
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for one-sided drums with or without jangles
(für einseitige Trommeln mit oder ohne Schellen)
for: Hand drum
Music score
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12 könnyű kis darab
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Oper in 3 Akten
Libretto vom Komponisten nach "The Devils of Loudun" von Aldous Huxley
in der Dramatisierung von John Whiting
unter Benutzung der deutschen Übertragung des Dramas von Erich Fried
for: Voices, narrator, orchestra
Study score
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Concerning the Recorder Literature of the late Baroque
for: Recorder
Book
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